Hobbesian Applied Ethics and Public Policy 1st Edition Shane D. Courtland

SECTION I Core Issues in Application

1 A Hobbesian Approach to Public Policy

2 Applied Ethics: A Challenge to Contractarianism?

3 Legislating Death: A Problem in Thomas Hobbes’s Argument and Its Relevance for Contemporary Democracies

SECTION II Medical Ethics

4 Hobbesian Medical Ethics

5 Hobbes and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Between the Pains of Life and Death

6 Hobbes and Informed Consent in Medicine

SECTION III Local Issues in Applied Ethics and Public Policy

7 Hobbes on the Ethic and Jurisprudence of Life

8 Cheers by Command of the Sovereign: A Hobbesian Approach to Alcohol

9 Hobbes Comes Out for Equal Marriage

SECTION IV Political Issues in Public Policy

10 Hobbes and Free Speech

11 Hobbes and the Welfare State

12 Hobbes on Serious Crime

SECTION V Group Pluralism and Public Policy

13 A Hobbesian Response to Terrorism

14 Hobbesian Holdouts

15 Between Two Masters: Hobbes’s Views on International Relations